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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Innovation Brainwriting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 2-3 h | 15-30 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 3-10 | 3-8 | 3-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas |